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social-insights

Social insights is an open source big data project that generates insights about various interesting topics happening every day. Currently, we are focusing on political sentiment analysis due to the upcoming elections in the United States. Data sources include the Twitter API. There is a search engine built to query the insights.

Getting Started

The project is broken down into 3 parts:

<!-- ![Overall Architecture](assets/planning-architecture.png) -->

Prerequisites

To run and setup the project you need python, node.js and NPM installed for the visualizations, which can be found here. For the data processing you need python which can found here.

Installing

To get started on backend:

git clone https://github.com/dsc-umass/social-insights.git

pip3 install pipenv

pipenv shell

pipenv install

To get started on website:

git clone https://github.com/dsc-umass/social-insights.git

cd web

yarn install

Django Development

Getting Started with Django Development

After creating pipenv shell to run the development server:

cd webpages

python manage.py runserver

<!-- ## Deployment To get started on visualizations: ``` cd dataproc/ sudo pm2 start api.py --name social-insights --interpreter=python3 -->

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